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Rare Collection of Patti Smith Signed Books, Catalogs and Magazines
SMITH, Patti.
Patti Smith Signed Autograph Document Collection.
Rare collection of first and limited editions, catalogs and magazines signed by American rock legend Patti Smith. Approximately twenty volumes, each signed by Smith, the collection includes a first edition of New Women in Rock (New York: Delilah/Putnam, 1982), a signed limited edition of Rimbaud (Zurich: Vasellari, 1991), a first edition of Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2002), a first edition of Robert Mapplethorpe Portraits Patti Smith Dessins (Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1998), the July/August 1996 issue of Option Music and Culture, the March 1998 issue of Time Out: New York, several copies of…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110268
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First Complete edition of QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO; released prior to the first edition in the red vinyl
MAO ZEDONG,.
Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations from Chairman Mao].
Beijing: Central Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1965.
First complete edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Duodecimo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Chairman Mao. Lin Biao’s calligraphic endorsement leaf intact after the frontispiece with the corrected superfluous brush stroke in the second line. In 1972, an edict was issued that Lin’s name was to be obliterated from history, following disclosures that he had plotted a coup and planned to assassinate Mao; consequently, “many surviving copies in the Chinese language have that page legitimately torn away, mutilated or censored” (Schiller, p. 36). In very good condition with pilgrimage stamps to the rear panel and a small name…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 95368
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First Edition Of The Authors Classic Novel The Golden Notebook; Signed By Doris Lessing
LESSING, Doris.
The Golden Notebook.
London: Michael Joseph, 1962.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to the extremities. Jacket design by William Belcher.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110932
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First Edition of Burgers Daughter; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Nadine Gordimer; From the Library of V.S. Naipaul
GORDIMER, Nadine [V.S. Naipaul].
Burger’s Daughter.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, from the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, with his signature to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional association linking to of the greatest post World War II authors.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 138017
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Signed Document From Marie 'de Medici
'DE MEDICI, Marie.
Marie de Medici Signed Document.
Letter signed by Marie 'de Medici. Signed “Marie,” dated September 12, 1613. Letter to M. de Bouthwoud, the president of the Parliament at Rouen, ordering him in the name of her son to convene and supervise the convocation of the Parliament. At this time Marie de Medici was regent for her son, Louis XIII, who was nine years old. A rare and desirable piece from the influential Medici, featuring a large, prominent signature. In excellent condition with only light toning and wear. The document measures 8.25 inches by 12.5 inches. Double matted and framed opposite a photograph, the entire piece…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 44039
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Rare First Edition of Richard Burton's A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry
BURTON, Richard F.
A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry.
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1876.
First edition of this classic text. Small octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119468
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Large Photograph of Marcel Breuer; Signed by Him
BREUER, Marcel.
Marcel Breuer Signed Photograph.
Black and White photograph taken by Pach Brothers of architect Marcel Breuer. Boldly signed by Breuer on the lower left. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.8 inches by 21 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 67091
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RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF Alfred Lord Tennyson's The May Queen; PRESENTED BY HERMAN MELVILLE TO HIS SISTER
TENNYSON, Alfred.
The May Queen.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1868.
Presentation copy, later printing of Tennyson's popular Victorian poem. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Fanny Melville from her brother Herman April 1876 New York." Presentation inscription likely in the hand of Melville’s wife. Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, to Allan Melvill (1782–1832)[3] and Maria (Gansevoort) Melvill (1791–1872). Herman was the third of eight children in a family of Scottish and Dutch descent. His siblings, who played important roles in his career as well as in his emotional…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 144277
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Rare Original Alex Haley Roots Manuscript; Lengthily Annotated by Haley and Accompanied by Photographs from the Haley Estate
HALEY, Alex.
Alex Haley Original Annotated Roots Manuscript.
Rare original typescript manuscript leaf from an early draft of Alex Haley's Roots, “the most highly acclaimed book of our time” (Washington Post). Double matted with two large full-color photographs from Haley's estate taken in the tiny village of Juffure in northern Gambia where Haley first met his African relatives of the Kinte clan including the griot whose stories were one of the inspirations for the Roots. The manuscript reads in part, "He don't travel nowhere in dat coach of his'n dats pulled by matching chestnut colored hosses, Lawd. An dat coach don't roll widout his liquor chest dat look…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 96509
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Large Collection of Britain in Pictures; In the Rare Original Dust Jackets
EDITED BY TURNER, W.J. [Bernard Darwin.
Britain in Pictures.
London: Collins, 1940s.
First and early editions of these works on Britain. Octavo, original cloth, approximately 125 volumes, color and monochrome illustrations. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 133214
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First Editions of each volume in Dumas Malone's work on Jefferson; Inscribed by Him
MALONE, Dumas.
Jefferson and His Time Six Volume Set: Jefferson the Virginian; Jefferson and the Rights of Man; Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty; Jefferson the President First Term 1801-1805; Jefferson the President Second Term 1805-1809; The Sage of Monticello.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948-81.
First edition of each volume in Malone's landmark work on Jefferson. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper of volume II, "To P.J. Federico with many thanks Dumas Malone Sept. 25, 1951." Volume one is a review copy, with the slip laid in. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets. First edition sets are rare, especially signed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 133891
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“They are the we of me": First Edition of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding; Inscribed by Her
MCCULLERS, Carson.
The Member of the Wedding.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.
First edition of McCullers' classic coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding, which has been compared to The Catcher in the Rye and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Harrell with love Carson.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, first editions are uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 134589
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First Edition of Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Yearling; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Mark David Corser with good wishes Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings April 1938." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, especially in the year of publication.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 116898
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“IF YOU FOOLISHLY IGNORE BEAUTY, YOU WILL SOON FIND YOURSELF WITHOUT IT”: First Edition of Frank Lloyd Wright's An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy; Warmly Inscribed by Him
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd.
An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy.
London: Lund Humphries & Co, 1939.
First edition of this work by the legendary architect. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Alec 'with an apology' Frank." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 133219
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First Edition of Thomas Merton's Thoughts In Solitude; Signed by Him
MERTON, Thomas.
Thoughts In Solitude.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy, 1958.
First edition of this work which stands alongside The Seven Storey Mountain as one of Merton's most popular works. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket, typography and binding by Enrico Arno.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 114467
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"surpassed only by Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz": First Hungarian Edition of Sorstalansag; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Sorstalansag [Fatelessness].
Budapest: Szepirodalmi, 1975.
First Hungarian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's masterpiece. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Also, laid in is an original pamphlet on this work, which is also signed by Kertesz. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 5057